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Comet Lovejoy

Amazing Panorama of Western Europe at Night from Space Station

January 31, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter An amazing panorama revealing Western Europe’s ‘Cities at Night’ with hardware from the stations robotic ‘hand’ and solar arrays in the foreground was captured by the crew in a beautiful new image showing millions of Earth’s inhabitants from the Earth-orbiting International [...]

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I Thought I Saw A UFO! Mystery Triangle On STEREO Image Explained…

January 19, 2012

Mystery diamond-shape “object” entering the field-of-view of the HI2 telescope on STEREO Behind around December 26, 2011. Credit: NASA The STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a two-year mission conducted by NASA. It employs nearly identical twin telescopes – one positioned ahead of Earth’s orbit and the other behind – designed to study the Sun’s [...]

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5 Hours of Beautiful Comet Lovejoy in 30 Seconds

December 29, 2011

Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) Esperance WA (27-12-2012) from Colin Legg on Vimeo. Colin Legg from Esperance, Australia has been documenting Comet Lovejoy’s holiday gift to the southern hemisphere, and this is his latest — and possibly last — timelapse, as the comet has started to fade. This one covers almost 5 hours of Legg’s Comet [...]

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Absolutely Spectacular Photos of Comet Lovejoy from the Space Station

December 26, 2011

Check out this absolutely stunning collection of new Comet Lovejoy photos taken by space station commander Dan Burbank just before the Christmas holidays on Dec. 22, 2011 – what an amazing holiday treat, the Chrtistmas Comet! Remove this ad

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Comet Lovejoy from Canberra by Barry Armstead

December 25, 2011

Barry Armstead was among the lucky people who were able to capture the amazing show made by Comet Lovejoy in the skies of the Southern hemisphere the past few days. “I got up on Thursday night/Friday morning at 3am, checked the sky and it was a black blanket of cloud. I observed for around 20 [...]

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